Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, both in Berlin, Germany.
I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.
Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.